"I'm now making myself as scummy as I……" — Arthur Rimbaud
"I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault."
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Arthur Rimbaud
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85 Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage…
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of…
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is…
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of…
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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